tournis
\tuʁ.ni\
The verdict
“tournis” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,230. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,230
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maladie des moutons et des bœufs dans laquelle, pris d’une sorte de vertige, ils tournent convulsivement sur eux-mêmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tournis · tournis · French
tournis · rank #44,230 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,230
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tough
Nearest frequency peer: tough (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tournis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tissés
tissés
55,775 corpus weight
- topologie
topologie
55,774 corpus weight
- toucheront
toucheront
55,773 corpus weight
- tough
tough
55,772 corpus weight
- tournis
tournis
55,771 corpus weight
- transfigura…
transfiguration
55,768 corpus weight
What this shows « tournis » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tournis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.ni\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tournis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tournis (IPA \tuʁ.ni\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,230 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tournis, with forms such as "oturnis", "torunis", and "tounris". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "tours", "Tunis", "tournoi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tournis, spelled T-O-U-R-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Maladie des moutons et des bœufs dans laquelle, pris d’une sorte de vertige, ils tournent convulsivement sur eux-mêmes.
- 2Étourdissement, vertige.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tournis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’homme ne peut pas toujours courir après les vents et les comètes ; les tempêtes le bousculent, il se noie dans les astres ; il souffre de vertige, de crampes ; les tourbillons lui donnent le tournis du bélier.
Tant de doubles qu’à force de s’emprunter, se rendre, se remprunter les stylos à bille, on en avait le tournis !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturnis
- torunis
- tounris
- tourins
- tourniss
- tournnis
- tournsi
- tourrnis
- ttournis
- tuornis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tournis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).